I would — but it’s a thread made up of at least a dozen posts. Maybe someone will have time to cut and paste all the posts into one document.
Whoa! This family lived my worst nightmare. Hostile bureaucrats and socialist zombies threatening his family. Kafka and Orwell combined dystopian. So glad they escaped! Like refugees except they are Americans who escaped to America. Montana no less.
I’m old enough to remember Rush Limbaugh saying this exact thing on his radio show during the Obama admin. Over and over.
It’s maddening knowing something for years and then all of a sudden it’s shocking news to everybody else. Didn’t Trump get impeached for simply questioning Biden’s Ukraine monkey business?
Have not stepped into a Starbucks since early 2020. Never will now.
This is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever heard. Even a few notches worse than not being able to be with your dying grandmother during Covid era. Z wants to kill the grieving father too.
Glorious. What an existential threat he must be!
In my region of Virginia, furniture and textiles were most of the economy until the 1990s. They fought globalization until the bitter end but ultimately lost the battle. The area has never really recovered but many of the buildings are kept clean and in good repair — I like to think out of pure hope. A great book about the furniture industry in southwestern Virginia is “Factory Man” by Beth Macy. Of course NC was also big on furniture. It was all a connected network that started with one family that branched out.
If this story were dessert it’d be chocolate mousse. It is delicious. Especially that line about the battle of Yorktown having consequences.
Love this idea! We need to do this in Virginia! I’d also test teachers for Washington state, DC, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, the northeast states, and Maryland. And Virginia since part of the state is basically DC.
Is this the point in the movie where he claims Kenyan citizenship?
Good approach! I will work that angle into my discussions. I always ask what is so wrong with their own countries? So many immigrants, both legal and not, seem to prefer their home countries. That is natural, so if possible, why not return to them? If not truly threatened with death or imprisonment by the government…
I had a neighbor who was from Guatemala and married to an American good ol’ boy. She was always talking about how much better it was in Guatemala - so much more simple and pure and how fresh the food was. I knew another woman from Turkey, also married to an American. She seemed to have so much disdain for our ways and our food. The meat in Turkey was so much better that she couldn’t bear to eat American meat. So okay….well these women married into the country and perhaps they were homesick, but it was their choice…
Southern VA is where I live - used to live in southeastern and now live in southwestern. This is my country and state and I love it.
“Industry depends on low pay illegal workers” is along the same vein as the South’s argument for slavery. It may be immoral but it’s necessary to keep the engine of industry going and support our lifestyle. Well that was—and is—the reality as they knew it. Comfy lifestyles and vast wealth are built on the backs of slaves and low wage workers. It’s pretty much always been that way on much of this planet. So better yet, let’s convince ourselves it’s not immoral to exploit people and find all kinds of ways to justify it like old religion and the new religion called globalism.
It will take a major shift in awareness for everybody to even seek to live without exploiting the poor. I think the highest ideal of America is to break out of the old exploitation pattern and enable all citizens the opportunity to work and enjoy the reasonable and honestly earned fruits of our labor. Personally I kind of think real religion—like what Jesus actually taught—has something to do with the shift. Someone —was it CS Lewis?— said “The problem is not that Christianity has failed. It’s that it’s never been tried.”
That’s my favorite quote of the week. Good one!
Thanks! We love NC. Son and daughter-in-law to be live there.
I live in Virginia, a non-NOVA part. It’s a beautiful state and it’s my husband’s beloved ancestral home. We like living where we live and the people we live around. We have considered moving an hour away to NC but they’re always on the edge of flipping blue. We have hope our state will flip red. It’s always in the edge but proximity to DC keeps f’ing us up. This year we vote for governor. It will be Youngkin’s asst governor Winsome Sears, black, solid, common-sense conservative against Dem x CIA “case worker” Abigail Spanberger.
I’ve heard of this data. My husband read about it several months ago and was gobsmacked. He went around asking everyone he knew if they had inner dialog. Those of us who do think everyone does. I asked a friend, considered highly intelligent and who has a PhD in Biology, if he had inner dialog. He looked puzzled and said he didn’t think so…
It goes along with what my favorite early 20th century philosopher, Albert J. Nock, wrote about in books like “Our Enemy the State” and “Memoirs of a Superfluous Man.” Nock was a little more pessimistic than the referenced study. He estimated that the percentage of mankind that is truly human to be between 7 and 10 percent. This portion of the population he calls “the remnant”, a concept which he explains in his essay “Isaiah’s Job.” (Available as free PDF with a quick search.) When Nock taught at Harvard, that was about the percentage of his students he found to be “educable.”
He considered most politicians and successful businessmen to be cunning and clever—highly trained animals with a sharp instinct, almost radar, for what actions would profit them.
This is a good introduction to Mr. Nock: https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1018
I had to stop eating anything with wheat. Until about 6 months ago I could eat bread and pasta with no problem. All of a sudden my body started rejecting all wheat products. One piece of wheat bread and I was sick with stabbing stomach pains for at least 2 days. I’m mainly doing Dr. Gundry’s gluten- and lectin-free diet. With very little cheating, enforced by the painful consequences. I do miss those homemade biscuits from the Mennonite lady at our local farmer’s market. The good news is I feel better and have lost 15 pounds.
Thank the Lord we the people voted hard enough to keep that friend of shooters and the cackler out if the White House.
That’s exactly what what happened with that guy in Charlotteville in 2017 - James Fields. Was surrounded by “protesters”, got scared, and drove through. Someone got killed. Was sentenced to life in prison for “deadly car attack.” It seemed like self defense to me. Maybe he should get a pardon.
Thanks for the link!
Hope you feel better soon! Ceylon cinnamon extract is supposed to be good for Bp. I put a dropperful in my coffee. You can also get Ceylon cinnamon tea bags.
Great suggestion. Glad it worked!
I like folk dancing of all kinds and I especially enjoy watching Eastern European dance videos. It’s one of my quirks. As a kid I was taken to a lot of polka dancing events… anyways — in Russia they have these dancing schools that are apparently very popular. The performances will have at least 100 kids - as many boys as girls doing these complex traditional dances in traditional costumes.
The boys’ parts are super athletic and the girls’, although also athletic, are more graceful. The kids are talented, perfectly synchronized, and the mood projected is one of joyful national pride. I find it refreshing, amazing, and beautiful to see kids in traditional gender roles, different but equally talented, doing something so wholesome. And the choreography is stunning.
This is one example: https://youtu.be/wz6WOZLGKxo?si=qTHPRyMBbCsocJvQ There are tons of videos with different levels and age groups.